The assumption that the longest one is the oldest and most reliable is invalid, Since anyone can peer, there's no reason that a peer can't fake itself as 20, 30, 100 peers, and, working on a very fast machine, produce a longer chain quickly than an older peer.
Yeah, just wait until the bot herders get a hold of this. I'm sure they would have no problem either generating huge chains, or just flat out generating coins faster than anyone else.
I enjoyed your explanation of "doomsday computation." It sounds like something out of HHGTTG.
There are 5 references to "anthropic computation" on Google. It as well sounds like an interesting concept. Can you provide any references? Or is it better known as something else?
The best part of the article is the random "All Your Base" reference.
Researchers are still discovering more about the H5 port; the Nature article indicates that perhaps certain human mutants have lungs that do not listen on the H5 port. So, those of us with the mutation that causes lungs to ignore the H5 port would have a better chance of surviving an Avian flu infection, whereas as those of us that open port H5 on the lungs have no chance to survive make your time / all your base pairs are belong to H5N1.
Slashdot... you win first prize. You just fell for, and greatly aided, Microsoft's viral marketing campaign.
Yeah, because articles that complain about Windows, Microsoft, and Bill Gates are so out-of-place on Slashdot. If your UID wasn't so low, I'd just assume that you were new here:)
According to the article, "Federal laws also prohibit the export of state-of-the-art microprocessors from the United States to China, meaning that microchips shipped to China are usually a few generations behind the newest ones in the West."
Side question: how does this apply to things (ie. CPUs, other hardware) produced overseas? Does this mean that the really high-end stuff is all manufactured locally? Or do they dodge the issue by opening manufacturing facilities in other countries in the region?
Also, this guy is not a record company executive, he's just one of the Bobs (a consultant.) While he may be able to offer such radical suggestions, he has no real power to implement them.
However, even disregarding the validity of the idea, I will admit it is nice to see something different from the usual stories about music company litigation and persistence in clinging to an arguably out-dated business model.
So Griffin's job is to help Warner monetize digital music, and he's convinced that the issue of payment for music is nothing less than "our generation's nuclear power." If our society can monetize music in a balanced, consumer-friendly way, the results will be awesome. If we can't... well, remember Chernobyl?
I tried to read TFA and got as far as the first paragraph but I refuse to read the rest of it if they are going to make such ridiculous analogies.
This sounds like a good time to get one of those $199 subsidized iPhones and walk away from the contract.
But isn't the whole mortgage crisis based on the same principle? People walking away from their contracts?
No, the mortgage crisis was caused by a combination of irresponsible lending practices by lenders and people attempting to live beyond their means. People walking away from the contracts was an effect, not a cause.
Heretic! Everyone knows that ethane boils at 212 degrees Ethanheit, just as it freezes at 32 degrees E. 100 E is just a hot day in Titan-Texas.
Yeah, I guess the 0-100 scale doesn't make sense if the hypothetical beings on Titan do not have 10 fingers and therefore do not think in base 10. 32-212 is equally nonsensical to everybody, except maybe an octopus.
Ethane BOILS at -88 C, so skip the zinc oxide and pack some mittens and earmuffs.
Any intelligent life that developed there would probably use the phase changes of ethane as the basis for their temperature scale, rather than water. So -88 C would become something more like 100 E
is that the term CSO wasn't defined anywhere. Apparently the reviewer was mistakenly communicating to use in security terms, which is one of the things IN THE REVIEW that he warns about.
I don't look forward to having to type out stuff like www.somerandomcompany.randomlygenereatedtldthatwas pickedbysomemarkettingassholewhoexhibits callousdisregardforconvenienceandacompletelackofcommonsense
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$.15/MB is cheaper per byte than text messages are. The publishers should be thanking Amazon for that.
Yeah, just wait until the bot herders get a hold of this. I'm sure they would have no problem either generating huge chains, or just flat out generating coins faster than anyone else.
Why do breathless writers always say "saving lives" when they refer to military applications? They're about taking lives. Just taking different ones.
Probably for the same reason it's called the "Department of Defense" rather than the "Department of War"
I enjoyed your explanation of "doomsday computation." It sounds like something out of HHGTTG.
There are 5 references to "anthropic computation" on Google. It as well sounds like an interesting concept. Can you provide any references? Or is it better known as something else?
The best part of the article is the random "All Your Base" reference.
The book was 'Debt of Honor' by Tom Clancy, in case anyone is interested. The event also factors heavily into the sequel, 'Executive Orders'.
And this time we really mean it!
Anybody want a peanut?
Slashdot ... you win first prize. You just fell for, and greatly aided, Microsoft's viral marketing campaign.
Yeah, because articles that complain about Windows, Microsoft, and Bill Gates are so out-of-place on Slashdot. If your UID wasn't so low, I'd just assume that you were new here :)
Of course they *can* do it. The issue is whether they *should* do it.
According to the article, "Federal laws also prohibit the export of state-of-the-art microprocessors from the United States to China, meaning that microchips shipped to China are usually a few generations behind the newest ones in the West."
Side question: how does this apply to things (ie. CPUs, other hardware) produced overseas? Does this mean that the really high-end stuff is all manufactured locally? Or do they dodge the issue by opening manufacturing facilities in other countries in the region?
Also, this guy is not a record company executive, he's just one of the Bobs (a consultant.) While he may be able to offer such radical suggestions, he has no real power to implement them.
However, even disregarding the validity of the idea, I will admit it is nice to see something different from the usual stories about music company litigation and persistence in clinging to an arguably out-dated business model.
I tried to read TFA and got as far as the first paragraph but I refuse to read the rest of it if they are going to make such ridiculous analogies.
1. Legalize drugs and prostitution.
2. ???
3. PROFIT!!!
You forgot a step:
4. Get voted out of office at the earliest opportunity.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
And for that matter what is the chance Alice will just say it once?
Go ask Alice. I think she'll know.
This sounds like a good time to get one of those $199 subsidized iPhones and walk away from the contract.
But isn't the whole mortgage crisis based on the same principle? People walking away from their contracts?
No, the mortgage crisis was caused by a combination of irresponsible lending practices by lenders and people attempting to live beyond their means. People walking away from the contracts was an effect, not a cause.
Heretic! Everyone knows that ethane boils at 212 degrees Ethanheit, just as it freezes at 32 degrees E. 100 E is just a hot day in Titan-Texas.
Yeah, I guess the 0-100 scale doesn't make sense if the hypothetical beings on Titan do not have 10 fingers and therefore do not think in base 10. 32-212 is equally nonsensical to everybody, except maybe an octopus.
Ethane BOILS at -88 C, so skip the zinc oxide and pack some mittens and earmuffs.
Any intelligent life that developed there would probably use the phase changes of ethane as the basis for their temperature scale, rather than water. So -88 C would become something more like 100 E
Sounds a lot like a phased array radar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array. You can steer beams from those without moving parts, too.
is that the term CSO wasn't defined anywhere. Apparently the reviewer was mistakenly communicating to use in security terms, which is one of the things IN THE REVIEW that he warns about.
Want to see a magic trick? I'm going to make these bootleg DVDs disappear.
What's next, a EULA that grants the software company my indentured servitude?
Uh, doesn't that already happen when you play WoW?
Nice Team America reference. However, you forgot:
McDonalds...CRISIS!
Baseball...CRISIS!
Pizza...CRISIS!
Christmas...CRISIS!
Fake tits...CRISIS!
Sportsmanship...CRISIS!
Books...CRISIS
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